Willie

At the 2020 census, 4,361 Americans bore the surname Willie — 7,370th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 68,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,361
Rank: 7,370th
How common: 1 in 68,500
Per 100,000: 1.5

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Willie described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 41.5%
Black, not Hispanic 27.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 22.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Willie

Kelly Willie (born 1982)American sprinter

People named Willie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Willie

Also a first name

Willie has been given to 596,385 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1947. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.